- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who cures meat products, such as pork, ham, bacon, or casings preparatory to smoking. Respnsibilities include:
* Pushes sacks of such materials as sugar, sodium nitrate, and salt to curing room, using handtruck or cart.
* Weighs out specified amounts of materials and mixes them by hand or in mixing machine.
* Packs and arranges meat in boxes, vats, tierces, or piles, and sprinkles mixture over each layer.
* Sweeps excess mixture from meat with broom.
* Rearranges layers after specified time to circulate air around meat.
* Dips ham hocks in brine solution, sprinkles soda on them, and hangs them on rack for curing.
* May be designated according to product cured as Belly Packer; Casing Salter; Ham-Hock Mopper; Salt-Bellies Overhauler.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who hangs animal carcasses on overhead rail preparatory to dressing. Respnsibilities include:
* Slits skin to expose tendons in hind ankles, using knife, and inserts gamb stick (hooked metal or wooden rod) between tendon and ankle bone to spread legs.
* Hooks gamb stick to trolley on overhead rail and pushes carcasses to next work station.
* Cuts flesh between toes of carcass and removes toenails.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who hangs animal carcasses on overhead rail preparatory to dressing. Respnsibilities include:
* Slits skin to expose tendons in hind ankles, using knife, and inserts gamb stick (hooked metal or wooden rod) between tendon and ankle bone to spread legs.
* Hooks gamb stick to trolley on overhead rail and pushes carcasses to next work station.
* Cuts flesh between toes of carcass and removes toenails.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supplies gambreler with gamb sticks and moves animal carcasses to dressing stations. Respnsibilities include:
* Removes gamb sticks from overhead conveyor and stacks them for use by gambreler.
* Places trolley (two-wheeled device equipped with hanger to which gamb sticks are hooked) onto overhead conveyor rail so that carcasses can be hung.
* Positions animal carcasses on table or overhead conveyor.
* Pushes carcass on overhead rail to various dressing stations.
* May slit leg tendons on carcass, using knife, to facilitate insertion of gamb sticks.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who salts (cures) and trims hides to prepare hides for storage or shipment, performing any combination of following tasks. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads hides, flesh side up, in layers on pile.
* Shovels and spreads salt over each layer of hides to preserve (cure) hides.
* Drags cured hides from pile and strikes hide against table to remove caked salt or sweeps salt from hides, using broom.
* Trims ears, ragged edges, snout skin, tail, and excess flesh from hide, using knife.
* Folds hides, flesh side inward, and ties cord around bundle.
* May scan hides for defects, such as holes and brandmarks.
* May be designated according to duty performed as Hide Salter; Hide Shaker; Hide Spreader.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who inspects animal hides, pelts, and slunk (unborn animal) skins for blemishes and grades them according to condition, size, and weight. Respnsibilities include:
* Spreads hides, pelts, or skins on floor and examines or probes them with wooden skewer to detect defects, such as grub holes, cuts, brands, and residual meat and fat to determine grade.
* Outlines defective areas on diagram.
* Records grade of hide on tag according to condition, size, and weight, and attaches tag to hide.
* May trim excess fat from flesh, and cut off snout, ears, and tail, using knife.
* May place hides in curing vat.
* May remove pituitary gland from split sheep skull, using knife.
* May weigh hides on platform scale.
* May record number and types of grades of hides on production sheets.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who trims and cleans animal hides, using knife. Respnsibilities include:
* Places hide on table and cuts off superfluous fat, flesh, ragged edges, and parts, such as ears, snout, skin, and tail.
* Spreads hide on floor, skin side up, to prepare them for inspection.
* May separate hides according to size, weight, and condition.
* May be designated according to animal hide trimmed as Calfskin Trimmer; Cow Trimmer; Pigskin Trimmer.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pushes skewer into neck meat of suspended beef halves to pin flabby meat together after head has been removed.
* May roll shrouded carcass with handtool to give it a smooth appearance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who pushes skewer into neck meat of suspended beef halves to pin flabby meat together after head has been removed.
* May roll shrouded carcass with handtool to give it a smooth appearance.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who shovels ice into chicken offal (waste parts) container to cool waste and retard spoilage.
* Loads and removes containers, using handtruck.
* May tend baling machine to bale wet feathers.
Industry:Professional careers
